Hunter X Hunter: Did Mr. Assassin Go Out of Character?

I used to think staying up every day to write my novel was exhausting enough.

Then that long-haired assassin tilted his head and said in a tone as casual as discussing the weather:

“Twenty thousand words a day. No stopping until it’s finished.”

“Miss a day, and I’ll break one of your bones.”

I looked down at the name I’d just typed into the document, [Illumi Zoldyck Family], and silently hit delete.

Is it still too late to kill off the male lead?

Illumi Zoldyck rarely took an “interest” in his targets.

As far as he was concerned, there were only two kinds of targets: those he could kill easily, and those who would take a little more effort. Their identities, stories, feelings, and sorrows were all useless excess information, even more pointless than Hisoka’s card tricks.

But this time, the contract was unusual.

“Make her write,” the client on the other end of the phone, a tycoon who sounded on the verge of a breakdown, practically roared. “I don’t care whether you kidnap her or hypnotize her! Make her update at least three chapters a day! No missing updates, no taking days off, and no more of that nonsense about being ‘blocked’ and needing to go find inspiration! If she updates every day for a hundred days… No, two hundred days! I’ll pay you triple!”

“And if she can’t?” Illumi asked calmly, tapping the edge of the receiver with a fingernail without thinking. He was calculating the time involved.

“Then make sure she stays ‘blocked’ forever, and never writes again.”